I can see the movie already. NFL ref's daughter has been kidnapped, but he can't go to the cops because he's fucking the chief's wife. Luckily, Joey Dollars from Chicago gets his haircut at the same place as the ref, and there is some back-room whispering. Finally, the big day. The ref just needs to call six phantom false start penalties, and he ensures that Atlanta-Minnesota goes under 44. Bam, he's got the ransom money. End of Act I.
You know the best and easiest way to contrive a reason to invade Iraq? Is it taking fake "pictures" of nuclear weapons in Iraq? Or blowing up an American embassy somewhere? Or maybe even killing 200 servicemen by sinking an American warship with an Iraqi Scud? No, the easiest way to get our troops into Iraq is by blowing up the WTC, dropping a plane on the Pentagon and killing 3,000 of our own citizens. A lot of people don't know that.
I hate myself for still thinking about this, but... If you were a Vegas/mob heavy, and you wanted to fix games, why the hell would you even think about the NFL, when you could target the NBA, college football, or clearly most inviting of all, college basketball??? My laptop isn't big enough to list all the reasons why you'd go after college hoops before the NFL.
Well, that's a lot of scratch on legal gambling. All of which would go poof if any vast fixing conspiracy went public. To me, that alone cuts against the games being rigged on any widespread or orchestrated level.
excuse me that figure is what is estimated in terms of illegal gambling... can't keep straight what is considered legal and illegal anymore with this league and with gambling http://www.ibtimes.com/legalized-sp...on-nfl-college-football-season-mostly-2089606
Thanks. That still works out to about a billion a year. Not as persuasive, maybe, but still real money.
There are no kickers in draft kings. If you're playing in a GPP ("Big Jackpot") game, I can guarantee you that one field goal won't make a difference. The people who think things like this have never played DFS. It would be much easier to fix the outcome of a money line game for a ref than a daily fantasy football card (which spans players from many games).
This all very much reminds me of an article I read when the new X-files was announced. It was all about how right after the Cold War, everyone was sure the Government had all the power in the world and could just easily keep a massive secret like the existence of alien species on this planet, or who killed JFK, or whatever a complete secret, and that's why the X-files worked then. In today's world, nobody has any confidence in the Government's ability to do anything half way competently, so the only reason the X-files will work is because it already has that conspiracy stuff locked in and canonized. The NFL can't even properly define a CATCH, but you think they can fix games? Not buying it. ......Devil's Advocate says, "Failing to concretely define one of the fundamental elements of the game sure would make it easy to completely alter outcomes without drawing too much attention: it would just seem random."
Don't you just love Brady, the Pats and the Boston media claiming that the officials are out to get Gronk and the Pats? It's hilarious!! They've gotten calls from the officials for YEARS, and have gotten the rules changed in their favor, they've continually cheated and gotten away with it, and now they're whining that they're not getting ALL the calls any more?
How so? Don't the same things apply to the NBA as they do to the NFL? Aren't the players competitive in the NBA and want to be great? Wouldn't the league and players stand to lose a lot of money? Why would players or teams be willing to have such horrible records?
Why? How? It would be better that Leon Hess and the various GMs and HCs were greedy and corrupt, had no pride and were willing to be known as clueless losers, and were so willing to betray their fanbase?
For that game to have been fixed, a lot of Bubba's teammates would have had to have been in on it, as that game didn't come down to controversial calls, but rather the Jets handing the Colts their butts. Why would the NFL fix the game for the Jets/AFL anyway? They looked down their noses at the AFL, and it was only because the Jets won that the leagues wound up merging.
Guys, I don't think jokes about our government smuggling explosives into the WTC are funny, or appropriate, even when trying to make light of conspiracy theories. Too many people lost their lives, and I imagine posters here lost family members and/or friends.
I don't think anyone is making jokes about or making fun of 9-11. What we are making fun of is conspiracy theorists who imagine that something as massive as fixing the NFL schedule to a script--or the government's clandestine killing of 3000 innocent people--could actually happen. _
